Who we are
As part of the Delivery Hero Group, Glovo is the fastest-growing multi-category app in Spain, connecting millions of users with businesses, and couriers, offering on-demand services from more than 170,000 local restaurants, grocers and supermarkets, and high street retail stores, operating in more than 1500 cities across 25 countries. We are proud to make a significant and valuable contribution to the strategic positioning of the Delivery Hero Group on the global market through our unique expertise.
Job Description
We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Quick-Commerce Global Services team in Barcelona to support the Delivery Hero Group's ecosystem with unique technologies: Kotlin
Your Mission
In this role, you'll have the unique opportunity to combine Glovo's vibrant, fast-paced culture with the reach and complexity of the Delivery Hero Group, one of the world's largest local delivery platforms. You'll be part of a Central Team based in Barcelona, collaborating with cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions that support the entire global ecosystem of the Group.
THE JOURNEY
Working on our next generation platform to not only provide food for our hungry customers but also other daily urgent needs like drinks, fruits, snacks but also batteries.
You are not shying away from building reliable, scalable systems with high concurrency and are always eager to learn new languages & technologies. Your decisions will make an impact since your ideas & efforts do matter.
Eventually you are not afraid to build global systems which are used by thousands of people and constantly drive for excellence.
Qualifications
WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE RIDE
Experience in the context of distributed systems and web services(RESTful, gRPC).
Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services).
5+ years of experience in production-grade applications.
High-level skills using Kotlin and/or Java.
Demonstrable skills with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
Experience in working with agile methodologies.
Experience with commonly used observability tools for monitoring/alerting/logging/ distributed tracing, such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog.
Experience with message brokers (SNS/SQS, Kafka, or Pub/Sub).
Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Curious, open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback.
You believe in cross-functional teams and know that responsibility does not end with deployment.
Experience in cloud platform hosting via AWS/GCP and terraform/cloud formation.
You are running, maintaining & deploying your own code to production.
Being able to learn and collaborate in the code base of other backend languages (python, golang knowledge will be a plus).
Building, maintaining & running a high-traffic system in a microservice environment with Kubernetes.